Tom's Hardware > Forum > CPU & Components > CPUs > Sun about to unveil its Opteron servers

Sun about to unveil its Opteron servers

Forum CPU & Components : CPUs - Sun about to unveil its Opteron servers

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
Anonymous   11-07-2003 at 11:49:30 PM

<A HREF="http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5104444.html" target="_new">http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5104444.html</A>

Good for AMD, good for AMD64. First IBM, now Sun, and rumours indicate even HP is working on Opteron servers (which, btw, is still kinda hard to believe IMHO; you wouldnt expect HP to back anything that could remotely slow down IA64 adoption, I'd even expect Dell to adopt Opteron first). Now where are those Fujitsu Siemens opteron blades that where promised for this year ?

= The views stated herein are my personal views, and not necessarily the views of my wife. =

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
Anonymous   11-08-2003 at 12:24:37 AM
- 0 +

So far there are none, zero, zilch. Sun has an Athlon (mobile even I think) based plugin card to provide x86 capability to whatever server system, but no real AMD based products so far. Now it seems it will release dual and quad opteron servers, and probably a (several) workstation(s) as well.

The best news may well be that Sun will port Solaris to AMD64; that was known already, but still important. By this time next year, AMD64 will have native OS support from Windows, several Linux distro's, NetBSD, FreeBSD, maybe even OpenBSD,and Solaris. Not bad for such a young platform. In fact, that is pretty much every major server OS besides HP-UX, and perhaps AIX/OS390. ITs also not worse than Itanium (which will have HP-UX, but not Solaris)

= The views stated herein are my personal views, and not necessarily the views of my wife. =

Reply to Anonymous
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > CPU & Components > CPUs > Sun about to unveil its Opteron servers
Go to:

There are 1213 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.180 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them